This Distracted Globe : : Worldmaking in Early Modern Literature / / Jonathan Goldberg, Karen Newman; ed. by Marcie Frank.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Goldberg, Jonathan,; Newman, Karen,
• MitwirkendeR: Bovilsky, Lara,; Dawson, Brent,; Evans, Meredith,; Frank, Marcie,; Gil, Daniel Juan,; Glimp, David,; Goldberg, Jonathan,; Kunin, Aaron,; Kuzner, James,; Matz, Robert,; Maxwell, Lynn,; Menon, Madhavi,; Newman, Karen,
• HerausgeberIn: Frank, Marcie,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

Worldmaking takes many forms in early modern literature and thus challenges any single interpretive approach. The essays in this collection investigate the material stuff of the world in Spenser, Cary, and Marlowe; the sociable bonds of authorship, sexuality, and sovereignty in Shakespeare and other...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction: World Enough and Time
• Part I. Materiality
• 1. Worldly Muck: Translating Matter in Book 2 of The Faerie Queene
• 2. Extreme Cary
• 3. Marlowe's Footstools
• Part II. Sociality
• 4. "Who Is Speaking Here?": Shakespeare's Sonnets, Modern Authorship, and the Contemporary University
• 5. Hamlet and the Truth about Friendship
• 6. "Racked . . . to the Uttermost": The Verges of Love and Subjecthood in The Merchant of Venice
• 7. Cities of the Stranger
• Part III. Universality
• 8. What It Feels Like to Be a Body: Humoralism, Cognitivism, and the Sociological Horizon of Early Modern Religion
• 9. Woman as World: The Female Microcosm / Macrocosm in Shakespeare and Donne
• 10. The Nether Lands of Chouboli's Dastan
• Acknowledgments
• List of Contributors
• Index